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(Applicxtion led Max'. 22, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM S. LYON, OF MCKEESPORT,

PATENT OEEICE.

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN SOHMIERMUND, JAMES J.BUTLER, AND NICHOLAS WOLF,

OF MCKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

CUE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 711,906, dated October21, 1902.

Application filed March 22, 1902. Serial No. 99,469. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, WILLIAM S. LYON, a citizen of the United States,residing at McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cues, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cues for use in playing billiards, pool, andgames of a similar nature; and the object of the same is to provide asimple and eiective device of this character which is tubular, yet whichis thoroughly strong and serviceable, and which can be kept perfectlystraight without possibility of warping.

The improved cue is preferably made from aluminium in tubular form, andto secure the necessary rigidity and strength I provide the same withlongitudinal ribs or corrugations interiorly thereof, and the tip of thecue may be of any suitable material, such as cork, while the bottom maybe provided with a foot of any suitable material, such as rubber, and asthe cue is tubular it may be filled with metal or other suitablesubstance at or near the butt, in order to secure necessary balancethereof.

While the cueispreferablycomposed wholly of aluminium, it may be made inpart of wood, and in the present instance the cue is formed ofaplurality of sections jointed to each other, and one of these sectionsmay be of wood, and the joints whereby the sections are united may be ofany desired character. As the cue consists of a series of sectionsdetachably connected together, any one or more of them can be taken outfor the purpose of substituting longer or shorter ones in order toregulate the length of the cue or to replace the same in case they havebeen in any wise injured.

The invention will be described at length in the following description,while the novelty thereof will form the basis of the claims appended tosaid description, and said invention is clearly represented in theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which-Figure l is a longitudinal central section of a cue including myimprovements, and Eig. 2

is a cross-section of the samc.

Like characters refer to like parts through- 5o out the drawings.

The improved cue is denoted in a general way by 5, and while it ispreferably composed wholly of aluminium, yet the invention is notlimited in this respect, for it may be formed in part of wood or itsequivalent.

By making the cue of metal I am enabled to secure one that is perfectlystraight, a point considered absolutely essential by players ofbilliards and pool and wherein the possibility 6o of warping is whollyavoided, and as the article is made of aluminium I secure a certaindegree of lightness which is not possible with other metals.

The cue 5, which is shown as tapering from its butt toward the tipthereof,as is customary, is shown as consisting of a plurality ofsections detachably connected to each other and which may be of anysuitable number, although three of them are shown, and each is 7odenoted by 6. The tubular sections 6 are connected together by anysuitable kind of joint, although I have represented them as connectedtogether by screw-thread joints, the inner end of eachv section havingan exkternally-threaded projection 7, adapted to engage correspondingthreads formed interiorly in sockets in the adjacent ends of thecooperating sections, and when the several sections 6 are connectedtogether they form, 8o in eiect, a unitary article.

In order to strengthen the tubular cue and prevent the same fromcollapsing, I provide it interiorly with longitudinal ribs orcorrugations, as 8, which have been found well adapted for the purposeintended.

As hereinbefore indicated, the cue 5 is preferably constructed wholly ofaluminium, although itis not my intention to limit the in` vention inthis respect, for it is obvious that 9o one or more of the sections Gmay be made from wood or equivalent material.

rlhe tip of the cue 5 is denoted by i), and it may be made from cork orfrom any other desired material and secured'to the cue in 95 theordinary manner. The cue as shown is provided at its inner or butt endwith a pad or foot 10, which may be of rubber or the like and which isslipped over the butt-end of the cue and which serves to protect saidbutt-end.

In order to balance the cue and to weight the same, I may, if desired,provide a filling 11. of metal, such as lead.

I do not limit the invention to the exact construction hereinbefore setforth, for many variations may be adopted within the. scope of myclaims.

The improved cue is strong. It can be easily made and its parts quicklyassembled, and when such parts are Vunited they present, in elect, anintegral structure that is not susceptible to warping.

Having described the invention, what I claim isl. A cue having aplurality of jointed tubular sections providedy interiorly thereof withmeans for strengthening the same and said nesses.

WILLIAM S. LYON. Witnesses:

GEO. W. REA, W. H. CLARKE.

